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Swedish journalist' killed in Somalia
The Local ^ | June 23, 2006 | AFP

Posted on 06/23/2006 7:57:37 AM PDT by Bushwacker777

"Hotel employees said the man had carried a Swedish passport and was accompanied by two colleagues, a man and a woman, both of whom were extremely distraught by the killing.

Several witnesses said the shooting may have been linked the publication by a Danish newspaper last year of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that enraged many in the Muslim world, including Somalia.

Mogadishu has been under the control of militia loyal to the city's Islamic courts since June 5 when they seized most of the capital, ousting a US-backed warlord alliance.

The situation has been tense with anti-US sentiment running high since. Demonstrators at Friday's rally burned the flags of the United States and Ethiopia, which the courts have accused of sending troops to back the warlords."

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.se ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; somalia; sweden

1 posted on 06/23/2006 7:57:38 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777
Several witnesses said the shooting may have been linked the publication by a Danish newspaper last year of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed...

Danish. Swedish. I guess we all look the same. No one seems to be saying whther he was filming or just watching. I'm curious which it was...

2 posted on 06/23/2006 8:01:05 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. 17,406+ snide replies and counting!)
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To: Bushwacker777

Yet another case where a journalist dies in suspicious circumstances! Funny how these guys who oppose BushCo end up dead all of a sudden. That just proves this administration will murder anyone who gets in their wa.............what? ........Somalia? Oh. Never mind.


3 posted on 06/23/2006 8:11:50 AM PDT by 12B
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To: Bushwacker777
Also on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654289/posts .
4 posted on 06/23/2006 8:12:00 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( www.answersingenesis.org)
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According to witnesses, Adler was shot Friday in the Somali capital while attending a mass demonstration organized by the Islamic courts union that seized Mogadishu this month.

An unknown gunman shot him in the chest at close range at a rally site in the southern part of the city where some 4,000 Islamists were demonstrating in support of the courts, the witnesses said.

"He was shot and killed while attending the rally," said Mohamed Amin, a Somali journalist who was at the scene.

"He died on the spot," Amin told AFP. A second witness said a gunman had shot the journalist in the chest, near his heart in deliberate fashion and that the surrounding crowd had scattered in panic.

"It was not an accident," the witness told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity citing security fears. "It was an intentional murder by someone who wanted to kill a journalist."

5 posted on 06/23/2006 9:16:37 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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6 posted on 06/23/2006 1:21:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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My what an unusual way to be killed. A white person in Mogadishu. Who'd have thunk it?


7 posted on 06/23/2006 1:24:55 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Jack Bauer" is Arabic for "I'm f*cked.")
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Another pic.

http://mypetjawa.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_mypetjawa_archive.html#115137256349758200

What do you make of the shoes?


8 posted on 06/27/2006 5:24:57 PM PDT by mypetjawa
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This picture makes me nauseous. I don't care who it is.....savages killing someone like that is disgusting!!!


9 posted on 06/27/2006 5:30:48 PM PDT by BossLady
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What do you make of the shoes?

An Islamic insult. The sole of the foot (or shoe) is considered unclean and to show it or touch someone with it is a supreme insult.

10 posted on 06/28/2006 5:27:11 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Jack Bauer" is Arabic for "I'm f*cked.")
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To: CholeraJoe

That's my supposition as well.


11 posted on 06/28/2006 11:39:56 AM PDT by mypetjawa
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To: Bushwacker777

Was it "youths" who did it?


12 posted on 06/28/2006 11:41:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Only defense info the NYT has protected since 911 is John Kerry's service record-freeperWristpin)
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An Islamic insult. The sole of the foot (or shoe) is considered unclean and to show it or touch someone with it is a supreme insult.

Here's my guess - as he was dying, the youths hit him with their shoes. If one of our guys votes to give money to feed these monsters, I will vote against him. If a pol wants to enable these killers, they can do it with their own money.

13 posted on 06/28/2006 11:48:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Only defense info the NYT has protected since 911 is John Kerry's service record-freeperWristpin)
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